Kindergarten

The Kindergarten at Riva Trace builds upon The Preschool’s goals by offering a program that provides an excellent academic foundation for children who will transition to public or private school, while continuing to foster emotion, social, and spiritual growth.

Kindergarten classes meet Monday – Friday from 9:15 a.m. – 3:15 p.m.  Children entering this class must be 5 by September 1.

Along with the Abeka curriculum (handwriting, phonics, some reading, and number writing), we use Science of Reading, Keeping My Kinders Busy Grammar, Social Studies and Science with curricula from Tara West and Karen Jones, and Bible with the Biggest Story. These students will be able to experience a Bible-based, school program five days a week.

The learning experiences at The Kindergarten at Riva Trace are planned to help children move towards the objectives for their individual level. Throughout the year, we will use the curricula to address each of these school objectives through various learning experiences. Children will be engaged in various activities to address their development intellectually, physically, emotionally, socially, creatively, and spiritually.

Language Arts Objectives
Learn and review vowel and consonant sounds, blends, one and two-vowel words, words with special sounds, and sentence comprehension and construction. Gain a firm foundation in reading through stories and word pages. Learn to write letters and what sound those letters make; includes exposure to cursive as appropriate. Learn rhyme and rhythm through poetry.

Math Objectives
Reinforce Number concepts and formations through 100, addition and subtraction combinations, number sequences, number words, telling time, and working with money.

Social Studies
Introduce community helpers, explore native American history along with the beginnings of American history, learn about interesting features of countries around the world, and simple geography and map reading.

Science Objectives
Age-Appropriate exploration of the five senses, weather, seasons, growing things, animals, dinosaurs, geology, and the ocean in correlation with God’s creation.

Creative and Development Objectives
Develops concepts of music, art, and dramatic play. Enjoys listening, moving to, and understanding music; draws and paints using a variety of media; role-plays events from different personal or daily experiences using puppets, costumes, or models of people and animals. Focus on writing readiness, hand-eye coordination, visual perception, listening and thinking skills, and good character.

Spiritual Objectives
Understand that the Bible is not a collection of stories, but God’s unified story of redemption. Help children to understand essential theological doctrines of the Christian Faith. Spend time in both Old and New Testaments, learning key distinctions of each and how they fit together.

A complete list of developmental, literacy, math, science, physical (gross/fine motor), emotional, music, art, and spiritual objectives specific to your child’s age group and class will be given by your teacher at our parent orientation.